Shifter's Secret Baby (Fated Immortals Book 3) by Vera Rivers

Author:Vera Rivers [Rivers, Vera]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Briar

The following day, I made myself as scarce as I could. I didn’t spend the night in Ash’s suite as I had been, and I slept poorly, tossing and turning until dawn, his words echoing in my mind.

Why does he keep pushing me away? Am I that undesirable to him that he just wants me for sex?

I knew I had told him that it didn’t have to be more than that, but I couldn’t deny that I had real feelings for him now, ones that I would never have believed I could have felt three weeks earlier. He was a part of me, growing inside me minute by minute.

A cold sweat broke out over my forehead in the morning, and I sat up, dizzy and shaking. Stumbling to the bathroom, I barely made it before I retched violently into the toilet.

Sputtering and moaning lightly, I flushed the toilet and slumped over the cool wall, waiting for my heart rate to return to normal.

After a few minutes, I finally felt strong enough to stand, and I ambled toward the sink to splash some cold water on my face, clearing my cloudy head until I was normal again.

That was odd.

Padding back into the bedroom, I pulled open the closet to search for an outfit from the online order that had come in weeks before. Shimmying out of my nightgown, I moved to slip the sundress over my head, but as I did, I winced at the tenderness in my breasts. Gasping, I dropped the garment and circled back toward the bathroom, eying my naked form in the full-length mirror behind the bathroom door.

I blinked as I took in my figure, studying the subtle but definite changes in my body. My hips appeared rounder, my chest fuller. My nipples were darker, and there was an almost indiscernible swell in my abdomen.

Oh, gods.

I had been old enough to remember these changes in my mother, long ago as they had been. But had they happened so quickly?

I had no basis, no education on these matters, just my gut instinct and the obvious changes in front of me.

The wind knocked out of my lungs, and I stumbled back, shocked at my own stupidity. I was a rabbit. My fertility was renowned. I should have foreseen this, even in a world where pregnancy was scarce. Why had I not been more careful?

Maybe because I hadn’t wanted to be. Maybe because this was what I had secretly wanted?

Inhaling, I forced myself to think rationally. I couldn’t know for sure, not yet. I had to do a test… didn’t I?

Retreating to the bedroom again, I hastily dressed and perched on the unmade bed, willing my brain to make a plan. There had to be a protocol, a plan for moments like this. Who else had I known that had been pregnant in my life besides my mother?

I vaguely recalled my youth and the process she had endured during all those awful deaths. I had blocked out the trauma after her death.

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